Javan Leopard Recorded Roaming Sanggabuana Forest

JABAR EKSPRES – A Javan leopard was captured by a camera trap set up by the Sanggabuana Conservation Foundation (SCF) in the forest of Mount Sanggabuana in Purwakarta Regency, West Java Province.

The young Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas) with a height of about 40 cm was recorded by the SCF camera trap in the Sanggabuana forest on June 11, 2023 at 12.53 WIB.

SCF Executive Director Solihin Fu’adi in Karawang, Sunday, said that the Javan leopard was caught on camera not far from a waterfall, which is about 1.1 kilometers from the residential area.

According to him, SCF installed a camera trap in the forest area of Mount Sanggabuana since March 2023 and retrieved it on June 13, 2023.

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“The camera trap installation location is in the Mount Sanggabuana forest area managed by Perum Perhutani KPH Purwakarta. In this period, we only installed four camera traps in the field, right above a waterfall,” he said.

According to Bernard T Wahyu Wiryanta, a wildlife photographer and researcher who is also a member of the SCF Board of Trustees, the Javan leopard recorded in the Sanggabuana forest is different from the Javan leopard previously recorded in Karawang.

“After we analyzed it, from the coat pattern, sex, morphological characteristics, and basic body dimensions, it turns out that there are differences with several other Javan leopards recorded by the previous camera trap. This recorded individual is most likely female, young in age,” he said by telephone.

“From several video recordings and photos that we analyzed, we also began to map the distribution of each individual’s territorial area,” he added.

Bernard does not know the exact number of members of the Javan leopard population in the Sanggabuana forest, either leopards with a spotted pattern or tigers with melanistic colors or panthers.

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